I love today's quad workout. I am part of the slit your wrist 5am workout group. This is a muscle

building program, but I do not eat before working out or immediately after. I work out between

5 and 630, including cardio on a walk, but I don't have my protein until post workout, which is

about 830. My question is, is it doing more harm than not to have anything directly before or after

when it comes to building muscle? If not, what is being burned or used during a workout or after when it comes to building muscle.

If not, what is being burned or used during a workout or after? So I answered this earlier,

Nicole, but I'm just going to add a little bit more too. So the reason you would add, you would

have your protein or carbs before you train or have food, any kind of food before you train

or after you train is before training, it's to give

you more energy to lift and after training, it's to replenish your muscle glycogen. So if you don't

want to eat before training, it's totally fine. Like my husband doesn't like to eat before training.

He goes into the gym and he lifts really heavy and he smashes his workout and he does not

have a single thing before training. I on the other hand really struggle to eat to train before I eat.

Like I have to have something even if it's a protein shake and a banana or I'll sometimes have

you know some overnight oats and a banana and some fruit or a protein shake or something before

I train. I have to have something in my stomach before I train. If I don't, I get really lightheaded. I find it very

difficult to eat and not train because my blood sugar drops too low. But if you can still push

heavy, then it's not necessary to eat before training. The food that you eat before training

is really to give you more energy to push more load. But if you're not compromising your training, if you're not pushing any more, you know, if you're not finding it a struggle to train, then you're totally fine not to not to eat before training. The other thing you have to remember is even though this is a more muscle program, you're not lifting, you're not beasting weights that you would be beasting if say you went to dream with my trainer Mark Getty. You're not lifting, you're not beasting weights that you would be

beasting if, say, you went to train with my trainer, Mark Getty. You're not, you know,

lifting those kinds of weights. So the, a lot of these things that they teach about the

principles of eating before and after training, whatever, they kind of more apply to people

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